Jonathan Zausmer

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Dec 27, 2024, 11:02 PM

Groundhog Nightmare

The movie Groundhog Day tells the story of a man who wakes up every day with the same surroundings, events, challenges and characters. He is in a loop from which he cannot escape. Well in the case of good...

Nov 23, 2024, 6:50 PM

Swords to Ploughshares

On Friday this last week I attended an extraordinary event at the Abraham Hostel venue in Tel Aviv. It was the book launch of a work titled in Hebrew “Vakitatu”. The word “וכיתתו” in Hebrew immediately jolts the minds...

Oct 16, 2024, 12:36 PM

Tit for Tat is not a Strategy

Things happen so fast around here, that by the time this reaches publication, events could have already changed. Following the missile strike from Iran into Israel, the whole world now waits for Israel’s response-bombing of Iran. The U.S. is demanding...

Aug 15, 2024, 11:56 PM

The threshold of our humanity

We can dwell on the carnage brought upon us by Hamas on October 7, the scale of Israel’s leaders’ negligence both military and political in ignoring the warnings, the consequent counterattack which evolves in part as a revenge onslaught...

Aug 3, 2024, 4:35 PM

Following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismael Haniya in Tehran, just after the inauguration celebration of Iran's new president, the wonder, admiration and brilliance of the scheme was widely hailed in Israel and abroad. Israel’s enemies were shocked, stunned...

Jul 27, 2024, 10:28 PM

Rage, rage, against the dying of the light

These words of the poet Dylan Thomas are unusually appropriate as the Zionist vision now lies in tatters; abused, cursed, under attack world-wide, with Israel led by a pied piper who plays his pipe on a world stage as...

May 30, 2024, 7:18 PM

Don’t fight the riptide

The riptide off the coast of South Africa. (via YouTube)

Israel would do well to bypass the extremist currents in its midst and work toward the two-state solution favored by so many UN countries

Mar 4, 2024, 12:57 PM

The Pied Piper of Caesarea

What world leader would be renovating his private swimming pool at the taxpayer’s expense in the middle of a war of survival in the aftermath of a mega-onslaught of murder, rape, and infanticide of its citizens? Only one. His...

Feb 8, 2024, 4:03 PM

Gaza, the Unknowns

Last night on the 7th February, at yet another press conference, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came out with a determined and bullish statement. His view is that the war against Hamas in Gaza will continue until Hamas is totally...

Dec 25, 2023, 9:35 AM

Israeli leadership has embarked on a mission to rout out Hamas, to destroy it, and destroy its leaders. Israel at large, and its citizens, are in some respects, also hostages – hostages of a government that has proved its...

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About Me

Originally from South Africa, Jonathan made aliya in the seventies, and lived and worked on a kibbutz for several years. He has a graduate degree in business from Boston University and is a managing partner of an Israeli based business. He was a co-founder of the Forum Tzora peace action group and participates in the Geneva Initiative workshops. He is the author of the book “Valley of Heaven and Earth”.